Join us on Twitter and IRC (#ludumdare on Afternet.org) for the Theme Announcement!

Thanks everyone for coming out! For the next 3 weeks, we’ll be Playing and Rating the games you created.You NEED ratings to get a score at the end. Play and Rate games to help others find your game.We’ll be announcing Ludum Dare 36’s August date alongside the results.

New Server: Welcome to the New (less expensive) Server! Find any problems? Report them here.

My LD21 game, McPixel iu still in development, scheduled to release quite soon! As a teaser, I created a new website, and released level creation tool! There is a definitive guide on how the levels work and how to create your own levels! Let me know what do you think!

Ok, I guess everyone here packaged and submitted the game already, but as I was trying some of them out, I thought that it’s a good thing to post some advice on how to make your game work out of the box, thus getting more views and plays. Consider repackaging the game if some of the below points apply to yours!

How to have your game working out the box:

First of all

Listen to suggestions, people will surely feedback if the game is not working for some reason! Check comments, come to IRC and ask if the game runs fine.

Make a gameplay video and include it in your game links! Even if someone is unable to play, he can give you some ratings (e.g. Graphics and Audio)!

Downloadable games

Subdirectory – Include a directory with your game files in the downloadable archive, it makes unpackaging way easier!

Decrease size – make sure you remove all redundant files form the archive!

File name – avoid using file names such as ld.zip, ld22.zip, alone.zip etc.

So, till the final hours I had no idea what kind of a game I’ll be making with my city. Eventually I ran out of time to implement plot, or fully include the theme. So there’s no plot, it’s pretty much arcade But still, I don’t think I could have done anything more within 48h.

Hi,
I’m writing to apologise that it appears I lost some of the I’m in videos. Apparently Viddler deletes everything after 30 days. Not knowing that I left out few videos to wither and expire I’m really sorry guys, I only realised that when I tried to download the videos just now.

All that’s left are these thumbnails in my browser cache.

EDIT: If you recognise yourself on one of the thumbs, please reupload on http://sos.gd/ld_vid I’ll include the videos!